With the Europa League group stages concluded and the Quarter-Finals of the Carabao Cup out of the way, the first stanza of the season has closed for Arsenal’s second string. The manager used the Europa League and the Carabao Cup to rest his first team players and apportion minutes to some fringe...

South Africa. France. Portugal. Spain. Chile. Australia. Not countries taking part in next summer’s World Cup, but nations whose red wine I sampled last night. From the way I feel this morning the only one I didn’t have was Chateau Neuf de Yer Da, made from the finest supermarket grapes – trample...

Match report – Player ratings – Video You know, we could sit here this morning and talk about a game of football that was short on quality from the first whistle to the last. We could talk about Arsenal having lots of possession but failing to make as many chances as you would like. We … The po...

Arsenal face West Ham this evening in the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup. Until now our run this competition has been relatively kind. First up were League One side Doncaster, and then it was Championship Norwich who almost went through until they got a lovely, late slice of Eddie. Tonight, our...

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. On this week’s show Mesut Ozil’s sumptuous volley gave us a 1-0 win over Newcastle, but what was the thinking behind his position deeper in midfield. Arsenal’s inability to build on the lead is up for...

Hello everyone, there’s a hectic week ahead so let’s just take a quick look at what the weekend has done for the Premier League table. Man City fluked their way to yet another lucky win, but as I’ve written about previously it doesn’t do us any good to even bother looking at that. It’s all … Th...

Match report – Player ratings – By the numbers – Video Sometimes, when you’re a team that’s low on confidence and struggling for form, you need somebody to provide something special to win you a game. Yesterday, midway through the first half, Mesut Ozil did just that. The German’s goal was a thin...

It occurred to me at a screening of the forthcoming talkie about Mr. P. T. Barnum that Arsenal Football Club would make a really tremendous circus sideshow. “Ladies and Gentlemen, roll up, roll up! Step inside the tent please for one of the most STUPENDOUS WONDERS of the natural world. More INCRE...

It’s Newcastle today in the Premier League. Arsene Wenger vs Rafa Benitez. As opposition managers go I quite like Benitez, actually. I hope I like him fine at the end of today when his team have been handed a solid thrashing by our chaps, and don’t take agin him because of some tactical mastercla...

Hello everyone, welcome to Friday. I appear to have accidentally had more beers than I had planned to last night, so I’m feeling a little tender. I don’t know what happened. First I wasn’t in a bar, and then I was. And when I was, I stayed there and for some reason pints of delicious … The post...

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. This week I chat with Chief Soccer Correspondent for the New York Times, Rory Smith, about Arsenal’s midweek draw against West Ham, the manager’s struggles to get his team to perform in any consistent, identifiable way, the new rec...